A planned risk assessment is one that is conducted in advance of conducting an activity, either before any activity is conducted or before further activity is conducted. This would often allow quality to be built in to activities and risk reduced (quality by design) eg design of facilities for manufacture of cytotoxic products or organisation/design of a label printing room. An unplanned risk assessment is one that is conducted to assess the impact of a situation that has already occurred, eg impact of a deviation normal ways of working.
